Jeremiah 20
20:1And Pashur heard (the son of Immer the priest, and this one was being ordained leader of the house of the lord) Jeremiah prophesying these words.
20:2And he struck him, and put him into the dungeon which was by the gate of the house of Benjamin, the upper, which was in the house of the lord.
20:3And it came to pass in the next morning, and Pashur led out Jeremiah from the dungeon. And Jeremiah said to him, the lord called not your name Pashur, but instead, Refugee.
20:4Because thus says the lord, Behold, I give you for displacement with all your friends. And they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and your eyes shall see it. And you and all Judah I will give into the hands of the king of Babylon; and they shall displace them, and shall cut them in pieces with swords.
20:5And I will put all the strength of this city, and all its toils, and all the treasures of the king of Judah into the hands of his enemies, and they shall lead them into Babylon.
20:6And you and all the ones dwelling in your house shall go into captivity; and in Babylon you shall die, and there you shall be entombed, you and all your friends to whom you prophesied lies to them.
20:7You deceived me, O lord, and I was deceived. You held and prevailed. I became for laughter. Every day I continue being sneered at.
20:8For I shall laugh with my bitter word, I will call upon rebellion and misery; for the word of the lord became for scorning to me, and for taunting all day.
20:9And I said, in no way shall I name the name of the lord, and in no way shall I speak yet in his name. And it became as a burning fire, blazing in my bones; and I am weakened from all sides, and I am not able to bear up.
20:10For I heard the fault of many gathering together round about, saying, Rise up together against him! And, We should rise up together against him -- all his men friends. Give heed to his thought! if he should be deceived, and we shall prevail against him, then we shall take our vengeance on him.
20:11But the lord is with me as a strengthening warrior. On account of this they pursued, but they were not able to comprehend. They were shamed exceedingly; for they did not comprehend their dishonor, which through the eon will not be forgotten.
20:12O lord, trying just things, perceiving the kidneys and heart; may I behold the punishment by you on them. For to you I uncovered my pleas in defense.
20:13Sing to the lord! Praise him! for he rescued the soul of the needy from out of the hand of the most substantial ones.
20:14Cursed is the day in which I was birthed in it, the day in which my mother gave birth to me; let it not be longed for!
20:15Cursed is the man announcing good news to my father, saying, There was birthed to you a male child, they are making merry.
20:16Let that man be as the cities which the lord eradicated in rage, and he did not repent! Let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shout at midday!
20:17For he did not kill me in the womb of my mother, for my mother to be to me my burying-place, and the womb an everlasting conception.
20:18Why is this that I came forth from out of the womb to see toils and miseries; and my days continue in shame?